Sunday, September 20, 2015

Unapologetic Zaree [戯絵]

Twenty-five years ago today, at 8 pm Central and Eastern, 7 pm Pacific and Mountain time, "The Flash" television series debuted in the U.S. television airwaves. Since I was
living in Asia at the time, I wasn't able to catch the show until it was
released on PAL VHS -- and even then, it was only five episodes (on
three tapes: the pilot movie, the two Trickster episodes, and the two Nightshade episodes).
When I was in Malaysia, the local television station "Metrovision 8"
aired the pilot movie (in two parts), and the "Mask of Rasputin"
episode, and then the show was inexplicably banned by the Information
Ministry. So I had only seen six episodes, but it was enough to make
me a fan of the show. It wasn't until the DVD set came out in the
mid-naughties did I watch, and rewatch, the rest of the season.

This piece is to commemorate this wonderful programme, which still
stands as one of the best comic-book inspired television shows, in my
opinion. Another show on this list is the current "The Flash" programme on the CW, which honors the original show (including casting the original Flash himself, John Wesley Shipp [below], in a recurring role) and surprisingly manages to include aspects of the Silver Age Flash comic books that the previous show could not.

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Former adman. Currently a marketing consultant for cellular technology and health care service industries. Former manhua background/crowd-control artist. Artist for "The Line It Is Drawn." Former resident of 12 countries. Current resident of California. Finally returned from Kokubunji, Tokyo, Japan.